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Personal, dreams, sad
I don't know if I am capable of dreaming anymore. What are dreams, anyway? How are they different from desires, aspirations and efforts?
But I can consider what I could dream of.
I could dream of not being angry all the time. Of not being filled with hatred.
I could dream of feeling secure. Of not worrying all the time about food and shelter. Of losing health insurance and access to medicine.
I could dream of having someone to rely on, of someone who'd take care of me and the things I can't handle. Of not feeling guilty of not meeting the expectations of others and my own, all the time.
I could dream of being able to experience all that stuff that I read about in books and see in movies. Of it not being too late for me anymore.
#ActuallyAutistic

Utilizing Voronoi Tessellations to Determine Radial Density Profiles
Veronika Dornan, William E. Harris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02390 https://

Utilizing Voronoi Tessellations to Determine Radial Density Profiles
We have developed a novel method of determining 2D radial density profiles for astronomical systems of discrete objects using Voronoi tessellations. This Voronoi-based method was tested against the standard annulus-based method on 5 simulated systems of objects, following known Hubble density profiles of varying parameters and sizes. It was found that the Voronoi-based method returned radial density fits with lower uncertainties on the fitting parameters across all 5 systems compared to the ann…

Twenty Democratic state attorneys general on Monday filed a motion in defense of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) oil and gas methane rule, following a lawsuit against the rule by Republican AGs.
Twenty-four GOP states, led by Oklahoma’s Gentner Drummond, sued over the rule last week in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, while Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a separate challenge March 8 in response to a request from the state Railroad Commission.…

Twenty Democratic attorneys general file motion in support of Biden methane rule
Twenty Democratic state attorneys general on Monday filed a motion in defense of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) oil and gas methane rule, following a lawsuit against the rule by Republican AGs. Twenty-four GOP states, led by Oklahoma’s Gentner Drummond, sued over the rule last week in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District…

Caught myself dreaming about filling the dishwasher.
🤦‍♂️
#adulting

Waking up this morning to about 4 inches (10 cm) of white stuff, with more falling from the sky. Let’s see where we end the day at!
#Vermont #Spring

I keep literally dreaming at night about quitting my tech job and starting a gardening nursery co-op, and I remember feeling really happy about it.

I keep literally dreaming at night about quitting my tech job and starting a gardening nursery co-op, and I remember feeling really happy about it.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20408 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Time-varying double-peaked emission lines following the sudden ignition of the dormant galactic nucleus AT2017bcc
We present a pan-chromatic study of AT2017bcc, a nuclear transient that was discovered in 2017 within the skymap of a reported burst-like gravitational wave candidate, G274296. It was initially classified as a superluminous supernova, and then reclassified as a candidate tidal disruption event. Its optical light curve has since shown ongoing variability with a structure function consistent with that of an active galactic nucleus, however earlier data shows no variability for at least 10 years p…